Does anyone else feel like this?

Beaker said:
We can only sometimes fill the stadium at the moment. We haven’t sold out a Champions League game yet, there are thousands of tickets still available for the Newcastle game this weekend and the recent games against Burnley and Brentford have been terrible for empty seats.
A lot of people deny these realities, but realities they are, and when you add a further 8,000 seats into the mix and a possible downturn when Pep leaves God knows what it’s going to be like. The club need to be very careful.
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The economy’s biggest in the shitter as is the cost of living it’s inevitable and only going to get worse, I guarantee if we get to the semi finals it will take ages to sell out hats another £150 day trip I can’t afford, I’ll go to the final but fuck Wembley semis let the tourists have it
 
Indaparkside said:
Just leaving anfield now feel rather deflated not with the football but with what I am now witnessing and have been for a while people I know who have followed city for years couldn’t get a ticket today yet I witnessed empty seats
Probably because these football sites couldn’t sell them on at inflated prices, tourists taking selfies all game which will only get worse and police treating us as scum. 1973 was my first game and I think this season will be my last can’t stomach it anymore it’s becoming a piss take now, I will always love the club but it’s becoming less attractive every week anybody who knows me knows I travel extensively all over Europe and England but I think my time’s coming soon to watch on the Firestick with a brew and sandwiches anyone else feel the same
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I've felt like this for a few years mate. VAR and social media have killed the game for me. I still go to 10-15 games a season, but only if I'm going with my sons. I never go on my own anymore. I had a sole solo season ticket for 20 odd years. When they leave home soon I doubt I'll go. Not being able to get at ticket at home to Real Madrid last season despite going to every Champs Lg home game and having a massive amount of points on my City Member account was the final straw for me. I felt massively let down and abandoned by the club, whilst thousands of half and half scarf tourists got tickets. Cheers City.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Not selling out Newcastle yet should be a real wake up call to the decision makers when it comes to pricing and policy. Especially given 8000 of those in the stadium will be from Newcastle.
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I think at the start of the season the hierarchy got excited when they sold out the Community Shield and first release of Premier League tickets. They’ve absolutely ripped the heart out of it with pricing and shambolic sales criteria since then and now that the initial euphoria of the treble has worn off sales have gone downhill, we had no problem selling out Champions League and FA Cup games last season, and some of the Premier League attendances recently have got worse, so it’s gone backwards.
 
Blue Maverick said:
The economy’s biggest in the shitter as is the cost of living it’s inevitable and only going to get worse, I guarantee if we get to the semi finals it will take ages to sell out hats another £150 day trip I can’t afford, I’ll go to the final but fuck Wembley semis let the tourists have it
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We’ll sell out the FA Cup semi-final. We sold out against Arsenal even though there was a boycott of the match. We’ve now got loads of support who don’t often go to a cup semi-final and live down South who will snap up the tickets, and will jump at the chance to get a semi-final ticket. The flip side being, the support and atmosphere will be shit in our end like it was against Arsenal.
 
jrb said:
We’ll sell out the FA Cup semi-final. We sold out against Arsenal even though there was a boycott of the match. We’ve now got loads of support who don’t often go to a cup semi-final and live down South who will snap up the tickets, and will jump at the chance to get a semi-final ticket. The flip side being, the support and atmosphere will be shit in our end like it was against Arsenal.
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Yes mate it took a while to sell out as most regulars didn’t go leaving it open to tourists and those not normally get one, who do it as a one off.
 
I believe some of it does come down to the general frustration people have with life in general at the moment. Cost of living crisis, transport worse than ever, daft kick off times and needed to book off even more days at work. Football used to be the release from all of that, it no longer is and hasn't been for a while.

Over the last number of years I have been fortunate enough to go to pretty much every game home and away missing less than a couple a year, yet this year I have already decided against a number because of Monday nights and having to drive etc and the ever increasing cost. Not that I am to the point of stopping, but I can still feel like I am getting more and more disconnected with it all.

Going off the comments of some on previous pages on here that must mean I need to kick in my season ticket and pass it to some tourist who loves his bag of city goodies from the club shop and gets his phone torch out like a boyband concert for some strange reason. People can have a moan all they want about what they are not liking atm, they have every right to do so without having to want to kick it all in. It's what a lot of grown up with and all they know. City if they had anything about them should be concerned with such forums and seeing what can be done. Instead they will be rubbing their hands together at all the season tickets they can turn to match day tickets.

Leaving their place yesterday I was annoyed at how many get into the hands of the wrong fans. People can try and stir up an argument all they want try to suggest the likes of young asian kids as earlier in the thread or those with half and half scarves might live here or have season tickets (at over 25k for the ticket). I myself ended up arguing with two muppets on the steps on the way out thinking it was fine to stop people trying to leave for a couple of minutes whilst they took selfies. They just don't get it all and it is a massive divide in sections, causing an us and them mentality.

It is city and only city where the tickets are coming from. Some to the corporate seats, with more to come with any expansion. Some to overseas supporters clubs (why?) and then we have our sponsors. Look at how many sponsors we have...

10 for Nissan (at absolute least) 10 for Nexan, 10 for Asahi, 10 for Puma, 10 for our cryptocurrency sleeve sponsor and so on.

Once you start dishing out that many to corporate and sponsors you can never take that incentive back. Only ever give out more.
 
Indaparkside said:
Just leaving anfield now feel rather deflated not with the football but with what I am now witnessing and have been for a while people I know who have followed city for years couldn’t get a ticket today yet I witnessed empty seats
Probably because these football sites couldn’t sell them on at inflated prices, tourists taking selfies all game which will only get worse and police treating us as scum. 1973 was my first game and I think this season will be my last can’t stomach it anymore it’s becoming a piss take now, I will always love the club but it’s becoming less attractive every week anybody who knows me knows I travel extensively all over Europe and England but I think my time’s coming soon to watch on the Firestick with a brew and sandwiches anyone else feel the same
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Nope
 
Aphex Twin said:
Always Chinese and Japanese on the front rows.
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Did I imagine it or did I see a young lady of oriental heritage crouched behind the advertising boards in front of our end during the FA Cup game v Luton?
She was taking pictures on a mobile phone rather than a professional camera with room lense. No press tabard over her coat.
Made me wonder how much she'd paid to who to be allowed to do that.
 
callumcity said:
The club shouldn’t be allowing a single tourist to go to any away game, not only because it’s incredibly unfair but also because they do not help the team with noise.

The super league bullshit was almost the end of me, when we dropped out I said we’re on our last chance.

Not sure how long I’ll last from here. Love the football, love the players and I love Manchester City FC but the heart and soul of the club has been ripped out.
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Some of the fans I know who travel to most away games are silent on the terrace
 
Agueroooooooooooo said:
Did I imagine it or did I see a young lady of oriental heritage crouched behind the advertising boards in front of our end during the FA Cup game v Luton?
She was taking pictures on a mobile phone rather than a professional camera with room lense. No press tabard over her coat.
Made me wonder how much she'd paid to who to be allowed to do that.
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Why worry about a young woman taking photos with a phone, don't our fans do that all the pictures they take on European trips and at away matches. You don't think the home supporters are on their Forums moaning about that.I thinking that these people are just looking for excuses not to go.As for ticket prices they don't complain the price of booze,try leaving that alone and go to the match sober,you never know you might enjoy
watching it, you might not be singing because you will not have any dutch courage
 
WARBABY said:
Why worry about a young woman taking photos with a phone, don't our fans do that all the pictures they take on European trips and at away matches. You don't think the home supporters are on their Forums moaning about that.I thinking that these people are just looking for excuses not to go.As for ticket prices they don't complain the price of booze,try leaving that alone and go to the match sober,you never know you might enjoy
watching it, you might not be singing because you will not have any dutch courage
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I don’t think your average legacy City fan from Manchester who’s followed the club through 34 years of winning fuck all, and through the last decade of success goes to an away match to video it or to take selfies inside the ground. (arf!) As a rule a FOC or a youth goes to an away game to watch the match and to support the team.

Why would anyone pay over the odds for a Liverpool away ticket that are gold dust, that other City fans are desperate for, and then spend a large portion of the match filming the match on a camera phone, and/or taking selfies and pictures of Anfield? It’s fucking mental. If they want to do that they should buy a ticket in the Liverpool ends, there are plenty of tickets available on 3rd party websites. Don’t take a City away ticket up to do that, that could go to a City fan who wants to watch City play and wants to support the team.
 
CC1 said:
Oh dear. Different arguments being used in different posts
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Not at all. My point is long time season ticket holders should qualify for tickets. As pointed out no points for away games, so how do these people get the tickets over fans who have had season tickets longer than they've been alive???!!!!

You said, 'It’s annoying to miss out but it’s not as if those there are all sitting taking photos.'

Seems plenty on here disagree.

As an aside, a guy I know told me to get Premium 93.20 tickets because it guarantees away tickets!!!
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Not at all. My point is long time season ticket holders should qualify for tickets. As pointed out no points for away games, so how do these people get the tickets over fans who have had season tickets longer than they've been alive???!!!!

You said, 'It’s annoying to miss out but it’s not as if those there are all sitting taking photos.'

Seems plenty on here disagree.

As an aside, a guy I know told me to get Premium 93.20 tickets because it guarantees away tickets!!!
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93:20 season card holders don’t get any away ticket priority.
 
WARBABY said:
Why worry about a young woman taking photos with a phone, don't our fans do that all the pictures they take on European trips and at away matches. You don't think the home supporters are on their Forums moaning about that.I thinking that these people are just looking for excuses not to go.As for ticket prices they don't complain the price of booze,try leaving that alone and go to the match sober,you never know you might enjoy
watching it, you might not be singing because you will not have any dutch courage
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Maybe I didn't paint a good enough picture. What I meant was she was in-between the advert boards and the stands where you usually only get photographers or stewards. Just struck me as odd.
 
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